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蟠

pán

Character

What 蟠 means

1. to coil

Words starting with 蟠

• 蟠桃pán táoflat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach); the peaches of immortality kept by Xi…
• 蟠龙pán lóngcoiled dragon
• 蟠尾丝虫pán wěi sī chóngOnchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or…
• 蟠尾丝虫症pán wěi sī chóng zhèng"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans…
• 蟠据pán jùvariant of 盘踞
• 蟠曲pán qūvariant of 盘曲
• 蟠石pán shívariant of 磐石
• 蟠踞pán jùvariant of 盘踞
• 蟠根错节pán gēn cuò jiévariant of 盘根错节

Words containing 蟠

• 虎踞龙蟠hǔ jù lóng pánlit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain

Characters built on 番

These share the phonetic component 番 (fān), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 翻fānto turn over; to flip over; to overturn
• 潘pān(archaic) water in which rice has been washed; (Taiwan) kitchen waste…
• 燔fánburn; to roast meat for sacrifice
• 蕃fánluxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce
• 幡fānbanner
• 蹯fánpaws of animal

Characters that look like 蟠

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 糟zāodregs; draff; pickled in wine
• 瞻zhānto gaze; to view
• 赡shànto support; to provide for
• 蟋xīused in 蟋蟀
• 蟾chántoad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking)…
• 镫dèngstirrup

Sounds the same

Read pán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 盘tray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices; (computing; bound form) disk
• 磐firm; stable; rock
• 爿classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc…
• 胖healthy; at ease
• 蹒used in 蹒跚; Taiwan pr. mán
• 縏small bag; sack
• 磻name of a river in Shaanxi
• 媻to move
• 幋large scarf
• 柈plate
• 鞶large belt
• 湴to wade through water or mud